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THE 



OCHTERLONEY FAMILY 



OF SCOTLAND, 



AND BOSTON, IN NEW ENGLAND. 



WALTER KENDALL WATKINS. 



PRIVA TEL Y PRINTED. 

BOSTON, U. S. A. 

1902. 



Printed by 

The Bartlett Press. 



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The Ochterlony Family. 



William the Lion, King of Scotland, so called from his adopting the 
lion as the armorial bearing of Scotland, founded in 1178 the Abbey 
of Aberbrothock, which he dedicated to his murdered friend, St. 
Thomas a Becket of Canterbury. On 10 Dec, 1214, his body was 
brought from Stirling, where he died, and was buried in front of the 
High Altar. The blue shelly marble block, curiously carved, which 
covered his tomb, is one of the relics still shown, as is also his heart. 
The abbey was unfinished then and not completed till 1233. 

William was succeeded in his reign by his son, Alexander II., who 
made good his rule in Galloway in 1233, and arranged a satisfactory 
peace with England in 1244. 

Between 1226 and 1239 Walter, son of Turpin, exchanged the lands 
of Othirlony, which had belonged in heritage to their ancestors, for 
those of Kenny, in the parish of Kingoldrum, Forfarshire, possessed 
by the Abbey of Aberbrothock. Kenny had been bestowed on the 
abbey by its founder, King William. This is shown by the charter 
of Kenny by the fourth abbot, Ralph, who held that office in 1226- 
1239. The abbey lands of Dunnechin being adjoining to those of 
Othirlony, by the good counsel of friends the exchange was made. 
(Register of Aberbrothock, Charter No. 306.) 

Kingoldrum is a parish in Forfar, four miles from Kirremuir. Its 
lands were bestowed on the Abbey of Aberbrothock by a charter of 
William the Lion, and were confirmed by Alexander III., and again by 
King Robert Bruce. The river Melgum forms a series of beautiful 
waterfalls here, called the Loups of Kenny. In this parish the farm 
of Meikle Kenny was occupied by John Hunter, farmer, in 1893, 
while the farm of Kirkton was held by Charles Findlay. 

On the 12th of July, 1249, Alexander III., at the age of eight years, 
succeeded his father, Alexander II. On his death in 1285 he was to 
have been succeeded by his granddaughter, Margaret, the Maiden of 
Norway, but she died on her way to Scotland. Then there appeared 
twelve competitors to the throne, the principal of whom were John 
Baliol, Robert Bruce and John de Hastings, who agreed to submit to 
Edward I. of England as arbitrator. He decided in favor of Baliol, 
who did homage to him in 1292 at Norham Castle, near Berwick on 
Tweed; and in 1296, after the battle of Dunbar, at Berwick, the 
nobility, landholders, burgesses and clergy of Scotland to a large ex- 
tent swore fealty to Edward and signed and affixed their seals to the 
Ragman's Roll, so called from the strips with seals appendant to some 
thirty-five parchment skins, resembling a game of the period in which 
a bundle of strips of paper was used to draw from by the players. In 
this Roll appears the name of Walter Dougterlony (Ochterloney) of 
Fifeshire. (Ragtnan's Roll, Pub. Rec. Office, London.) 



It is possible that Fife then included lands north of the Tay River, 
but it is more probable that the early home of the Ochterlony family 
was south of the Tay. 

During the reign of John Baliol, Sir William Wallace appears and 
becomes prominent. A tradition of the Ochterlony family in the 
middle of the seventeenth century relates the existence at one time of 
a letter from Wallace to his trusty and assured friend, the Laird of 
Ouchterloney, requiring him to repair to Wallace, with his friends and 
servants, "for its lyke we will have use for you and other honest men 
in the countrey within a short tyme," as the letter read, and shortly 
after the Barns of Ayr were burnt, as the tradition relates. 

This affair of the Barns of Ayr is described by Sir Walter Scott in 
his Tales of a Grandfather. 

In 1351, William, abbot of the abbey, confirmed to John de Othir- 
lowney the charter of Kenny granted by Ralph (1226-1239). (Regis- 
ter of Abbey, pp. 334, 335.) 

This confirmation also refers to a perambulation of the time of Gil- 
bert (1225), third abbot, who preceded Ralph, and mentions also the 
lands of Kyrkton in Kingoldrum. 

John Ochterlony, to whom were confirmed the lands of Kenny in 
1351, was sheriff of Forfar in 1342. (Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, I., 
501.) 

By an inquisition taken of the lands of Kennymykyl in April, 1409, 
William de Ouchterlowny, brother of Alexander de Ouchterlowny, 
died seized and vested in the lands of Kennymykyl, in the shire of 
Kingoldrum, regality of Aberbrothock ; the land being held of the 
abbey "in capite " by " servicium homagii warde et relevii," etc. ; and 
Alexander was heir of William. (Abbey Register, pp. 47, 48.) 

At Stirling, 4 Nov., 1444, James II. confirmed the gift and grants that 
were made by several persons to Willelmo de Ouchterlowny of Kelly 
of lands in barony of Kelly, Forfar, in exchange for other lands which 
were to the said persons, to be held by said William and his heirs by 
the said charter. (Register of Great Seat, No. 282. ) 

A few miles from the Abbey of Aberbrothock is the village of Ar- 
birlot, in which is Kelly Castle, a fine specimen of the old Scottish 
baronial tower, situated on a rocky eminence on the west bank of the 
water, about a mile below the church and village of Arbirlot. 

Sir James Stewart, who was killed at the battle of Halidon-hill in 
1333, had a son, Sir John Stewart, who got a charter of the lands of 
Kelly in Angus (Forfar) but died without male issue. 

In King David II. (1331-1370) John Stewart had the barony of 
Kellie by resignation of James Stewart, which Walter Stewart had 
between 1320-1326, and previously in Robert I. (1305-1320) Robert 
Stewart had the barony of Kellie, Forfar, Roger Mowbray had for- 
feited. (Index Early Charters, 10-14, 21-23, 55-17.) 

Sir John Stewart was succeeded by Sir Robert Stewart of Shan- 
bothy, who carried on the line of the family, and died in 1386. His 
second son was Robert, ancestor of the Stewarts of Rosythe, and 
through a female of this branch Kellie is said to have come to the 
Ochterloney family. 



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By a charter of Robert III. (1370-1390) William Maule of 
Panmure concedes to Alexander Oughterloney and Janet Maule, 
his wife, the lands of Greinford, Forfar. ( Index Earlv Charters, 
137, 138.) 

Greinford is without doubt in Arbirlot, and in modern times is 
the farm of Greenford, of which Thomas Douglas was tenant in 
1893. 

Sir William Maule, Lord of Panmure, married Marian, only daugh- 
ter of David Fleming of Biggar and Jean Barclay (daughter of Sir 
David Barclay, Lord of Brechin). Sir William had one daughter, 
Jean or Janet, who married Alexander Auchterloney of Kellie previ- 
ous to 1390. In 1391 a relief of Melgund was made to William 
Ochterloney. ( Exchequer Rolls, III., 270. ) 

In 1445 the annual rent from Panmure to William Ochterloney of 
Kelly was £8 6j. 8,1. (Exchequer Rolls, I'., 201.) 

Sir Andrew Gray, seventh baron of Broxmouth, married about 1378 
Janet, daughter of Sir Roger de Mortimer, and had one son and seven 
daughters. One of the youngest of these daughters married first, 
William Auchterloney of Kelly, last mentioned, and second, David 
Annan of Melgum. 

In a charter of 1466 from Malcolm, the abbot, the wife of William 
is given as Janet. This charter is in reference to the stone quarried 
on the lands of Kelly, the freestone, which is common to this neigh- 
borhood. (Abbey Register, p. 153.) 

In a confirmation of the lands of Kennymykle, 12 April, 1466, by 
Walter, abbot of the monastery of Aberbrothock, to Alexander de 
Ochterloney, son and heir of William de Ochterloney, master of 
Kelly, is a mention of a previous charter, dated 23 Dec, 1444, from 
Malcolm, the abbot, to Alexander Ochterloney and Mariota de 
Drummond, his wife. (Abbey Register, pp. 149, 150.) 

She was probably the daughter of Sir Malcolm Drummond (an- 
cestor of the Earls of Perth) by Mariota, daughter of Sir David 
Murray, Lord of Tullibardin. Sir Malcolm died in 1470. A record 
of the Drummonds, some of whom intermarried with the royal fami- 
lies of Scotland, is given back to about 11 00 in Douglas's Peerage 
of Scotland (pp. 547-555). 

On 6 May, 1493, in the register of the abbey, David, the abbot, 
shows the possession of the lands of Kennemekle by the master of 
Kelly, and states that James de Ochterloney is son and heir of Alex- 
ander (pp. 280, 281 ). 

In 1512 a commission of the lands of Kennemekle mentions James 
Ochterloney of Kelly. ( Abbey Register, p. 420. ) 

13 May, 1517, the King, James V., grants to William Ochterloney 
of Kelly the lands of Lochle and Inchgromnell in Glennesk, For- 
farshire. (Register of Great Seal, XX., 42.) 

On 8 Sept., 1528, the King, for good service, grants to William 
Ochterloney of that ilk and Margaret Gardyne, his wife, lands of 
Petcourent in Kerrimuir, Forfar, which were those of Archibald, Earl 
of Angus. ( Register of the Great Seal, XXII., 229. ) 



In 1574, by a relief of the lands of Ochterloney, alias Kelly, in 
Exchequer Rolls (XX., 460), they were held by William Ochterloney. 

23 Nov., 1591, James VI. of Scotland, known as James I. of Eng- 
land, confirmed, etc., for good service, to William Ochterloney of the 
same the lands and barony of Auchterloney, alias Kelly. ( Great 
Seal, XXXIX., 116.) 

In the Commissariat of Edinburgh we find, 17 Feb., 1596, the will 
of Elizabeth Stewart, sometime spouse of William Auchterloney of 
that ilk, laird of Kelly, Forfar. 

The King confirmed 27 June, 1609, a charter of William Ochter- 
loney of that ilk, who by a contract between himself and his second 
son, Alexander Ouchterloney, burgess of Aberbroath, dated Kelly, 4 
Jan., 1609, has a reversion in the lands of Wester Bonhard and part 
of the lands of Bonythan, with precept of seisin directed to Henry 
Ochterloney of Milnhill. (Register of Great Seal, XL V., 327.) 

2 Dec, 1609, William Auchterloney was served as heir to his father, 
Sir William of that ilk, in the lands and barony of Auchterloney, 
alias Kelly. (I»a. Ret. Abbreviate, IV., 295.) 

In 1614 Sir William Ochterloney sold Kelly to Sir William Irvine 
of Drum. In 1679 it was purchased by George, Earl of Panmure, 
from Alexander Irvine of Drum. The earl's brother, Harry Maule, 
had a conveyance of the barony of Kelly to himself. It was he, 
with his son James, who planted the woods of Kelly about 1724. 
The castle was without doubt built by the Ochterloneys, and being 
in a ruinous state it was in 1864 completely restored. It is now an 
inhabited house, the property of the Earl of Dalhousie, the repre- 
sentative of the old family of the Maules of Panmure, and leased as 
a residence. 

20 Oct., 1585, the King confirmed a charter of the lands of Smyd- 
dehill, lordship of Brechin, granted by John, Bishop of Brechin, to 
Charles Murray, son and heir apparent of William Murray, husband 
of Margaret Gardine, laird of Kelly, and Mariote Auchterloney, wife 
of Charles Murray. (Register of Great Seal, XXXV., 197.) 

Charles Murray of Smyddehill married Marion Auchterloney, and 
to a deed of Murray's in 1599 the following are witness : William 
Auchterloney of that ilk, James Auchterloney of Setoun and John 
Auchterloney of Bamirmour (Balmirmer). (Laing C/iarters, Nos. 
1378, 1387.) 

28 Oct., 1525, the abbot grants to Alexander Ochterloney, son and 
heir apparent of William Ochterloney of Kelly, and to Elizabeth 
Leyemount, the wife of said Alexander, the lands of Kennemekyl in 
Kyncoldrum, Forfar. (Register of the Abbey, p. 445.) 

10 June, 1530, the King confirmed to Alexander Ochterloney of 
that ilk and Elizabeth Leirmonth, his wife, the lands of Balcathy and 
Wester Knox adjacent to Kelly, alias Ochterloney. (Register Great 
Seal, XXIII., 204. ) 

In 1536 David Betoun confirmed and renewed the charter of 1351 
to John de Othirlony of the lands of Kenny. (Abbey Register, p. 530. ) 

7 Dec, 1547, Queen Mary grants to James Ochterloney, son and 
heir apparent of Alexander Ochterloney of the same, lands in the 



barony of Ochterloney, alias Kelly, which Alexander had resigned, 
reserving a free tenement for himself and a third to his wife, Isabel 
Cunyngham (second wife). (Register of Great Seal, XXX., 222.) 

In the Privy Council records in 1601, in a bond by William Ouchter- 
loney of that ilk, we find it witnessed by Gilbert Auchterlony, brother 
of said William, and Patrick, son of said William. {Privy Council, 
VI, 297, 298.) 

Under date of 1G09 is a complaint against David Auchterloney, 
brother of William of that ilk, and Alexander, son of said William. 
Other entries show that David was a bailie of Aberbrothock. ( Privy 
Council, VIII., 244.) 

In 1607 the King confirms to William a charter of 28 April, 1603, 
with consent of his heir, William, to Patrick Ouchterloney, fourth son 
of William of that ilk, lands in Easter and Wester Bonhard. Alex- 
ander Auchterloney of Balmirmer is also mentioned. ( Register Great 
Seal, XLIV., 352.) 

East Balmirmer was held in 1893 by John Hulme, farmer, and 
West Balmirmer by David Ogilvie, Easter Bonhard by William Fair- 
lie ; all these farms being in the parish of Arbirlot. 

7 June, 1608, the King confirmed a charter of May 8 from William 
Ochterlony of that ilk to Patrick Ochterloney in Bonhard and Eu- 
phanie Maule, his wife, of lands of Wester Knox in Kelly, Forfar ; 
David Ochterloney, junior, burgess of Aberbroath, and James Ochter- 
loney, witnesses. (Register of Great Seal, XIV., 241.) 

Again in 1609 the same, with lands of Ester Knox and Balcathy ; 
James Ochterloney, in times past of Mairden, as witness, and the pre- 
cept of seisin directed to William Auchterloney in Balmillour. 
(Register Great Seal, XIV., 272.) 

29 June, 1654, John Auchterlony of Hospitallfield, heir of John 
Auchterloney younger, fiar of Guynd, his father, in the town and 
landis of Hospitalfield within the lordship of Aberbrothock. {Inq. 
Ret., XXI, 320.) 

Hospitalfield, on the Dundee road from Arbroath, takes its name 
from the hospital of the abbey which stood on its site, part of the 
present building dating from that period. It is credited with being 
" Monkbarns " of Scott's "Antiquary." 

When Kelly was sold in 1614 William Ochterloney purchased 
Guynd in the parish of Carmylie from the Strachans. Alexander 
Strachan had Carmylie in 1522. 

12 April, 1676, John Auchterloney of Guynd was served as heir 
to his father, John of Guynd, of the lands of Guynd. (Inq. Ret., 
XXXV, 14.) 

24 Feb., 1704, John Auchterlonie was served as heir general of his 
father, John of Guynd. ( Service of Heirs. ) 

John Ochterloney, the father, who died at that time (1704), is best 
known for his account of Forfarshire, which he wrote about 1682 for 
Sir Robert Sibbald, geographer for the King, who intended to publish 
a history of Scotland. The matter he collected was printed in the 
Spottiswoode Miscellany, Vol. I., pp. 331-350, from the manuscript 
in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh. He writes : 



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" I will add no more for our own Familie of Ouchterlony of that Ilk 
but what I have said in the generall description of some places we 
have and had concern in, but that I have ane account of the marriages 
of the Familie these fifteen generations, viz., 1st, Stewart of Rosyth, 
in Fyffe ; 2nd, Maull of Panmure ; 3d, Ogilvy of Lentrathene, prede- 
cessor to the Lords of Ogilvy ; 4th, Gray, of the Lord Gray ; 5th, 
Drummond of Stobhall, now Perth ; 6th, Keith, Lord Marishall ; 7th, 
Lyon, Lord Glames ; 8th, Cunninghame of Barnes ; 9th, Stewart of 
Innermeath ; 10th, Olyphant, of the Lord Olyphant ; 11th, Scrimgeour, 
of Dudhope ; 12th, Beatoun of Westhall ; 13th, Peirsone of Loch- 
lands; 14th, Carnegy of Newgait ; 15th, Maull, cousine-germane to 
the deceist Patrick, Earl of Panmure. All these are daughters of the 
above written families. The familie is very ancient and very great, 
having above fourteen score chalders of victuall, which was a great 
estate in those days. 

" The armes of our Familie are thus blazoned — bears Azure, a lyon 
rampant, Argent, within a border Gules entoure, of eight buckles Or 
above the shield, ane helmet mantled Gules and doubled argent; and 
on the torse for a crest, ane eagle displayed Azure, with ane escallope 
in hirbeek, Argent, and the motto above the crest, Deus mihi adjutor." 

The writer has been able to show the marriages noted above in 
some of the cases. 

John Auchterloney of Guynd died in 1770 ; he was baptized 23 Dec, 
1688, at Carmylie. 

3 Oct., 1736, John Ochterloney, junior, of Montrose, married Ann 
Ochterloney, daughter of John Ochterloney of Guynd. 

13 March, 1772, Ann, widow of John Ochterloney, merchant, of 
Montrose, was served heir of her father, John of Guynd. 

John and Ann Ochterloney of Montrose had Patrick, baptized 
1 March, 1741, and Ann, baptized 2 Jan., 1743, in Montrose. 

John Ochterloney of Guynd was served heir general to his grand- 
father, John Ochterloney in Montrose, merchant, on 5 April, 1781. 

John Ouchterloney of Guynd was served as heir special to his 
father, John Ochterloney of Guynd, who died 30 Jan., 1776. 

Margaret, a sister of John Ochterloney of Guynd (who died 29 Nov., 
1843, unmarried), was served as his heir 4 March, 1844. She married 
James Pierson of Balmadies. On her death in 1849 her son, James 
Alexander Pierson, became the twenty-first laird of Guynd. He mar- 
ried Elizabeth Townsend, daughter of James Murray Grant, twelfth 
laird of Glenmoriston. On Mr. Pierson's death, 9 Aug., 1873, he be- 
queathed Guynd to go on the death of his widow to Col. T. H. Ochter- 
loney, of the Montrose branch of the family, who now holds it. 



THE WESTER SEYTOUN FAMILY. 

In 1525 we find the earliest mention of Seyton, in connection with 
the Ochterlony family of Kelly, when William Ochterloney of Nether 
Kelly and his wife, Egidie Thomson, and Henry, son of William 
Ochterloney, are parties to an interest in lands in Seytoun and thirlage 



in the mill of Kirkton, belonging to the abbey. ( Register of the Abbey, 
p. 445.) 

In 1526 William and his son Henry have rights in lands of Neuton 
and Panlathy and Crawde in the parish of Abyrriloth. ( Abbey Regis- 
ter, p. 453.) The first may be identified in the present farm of East 
Kirkton, in St. Vigeans parish, occupied in 1893 by John Hay, farmer. 
Neuton probably included the modern farm of Newton held in 1893 
by James Addison Scott. Panlathie is held by George Young, and 
Crudie by John Rennie. 

In a Retour of Inquest, 30 Oct., 1560, taken at the front gate of 
the monastery of Arbroath, the name of William Ochterloney of 
Setoun appears with other names. (Laing Charters, No. 723.) 

20 Jan., 1603, James V. ratified two charters: one of these a feudal 
charter dated 31 April, 1586, where John, Lord Hamilton, commen- 
dator of Aberbrothock Abbey, holds William Ochterloney and Bar- 
bara Rait, his wife, in the lands of Seytoun in Aberbrothock ; the 
other, 26 Dec, 1601, when John, Marquis of Hamilton, holds James 
Ochterloney, son of the said William Ochterloney, and Isabell Peirson, 
wife of said James Ochterloney, with "lie wrak et wair de lie Houp." 
(Register of Great Sea/, XLIIL, 271.) 

Apud Halierudhous, 20 Jan., 1603. 
"REX, — cum consensu e\:c. (93.), — ratificavit [1] cartam feudi- 
firme per Jo. dom de Hammiltoun commendatarium de Abirbrothok 
et ejusdem conventum factam quondam Willelmo Auchterlonie, et 
Barbare Rait ejus spouse, - — de occidentali dimedietate terrarum de 
Seytoun, cum decimis garbalibus que nunquam separari solebant, in 
baronia et regalitate de Abirbrothok vie. Forfare ; — Tenend. dictis 
Wil. et Barb, in conjuncta infeodatione, et heredibus inter eos legit, 
procreatis, quibus deficientibus, heredibus et assignatis dicti Wil. qui- 
buscunque, de dicto monast. ; — de data apud Kynnoull et Abirbro- 
thok, 1 et 30 Apr., 1586: — [2] cartam per Jo. marchionem de Ham- 
miltoun commendatarium de Abirbrothok et ejusdem conventum fact. 
JACOBO AUCHTERLONIE filio et heredi dicti Wil., et ISSA- 
BELLE PEIRSOUN ejus spouse, — de dictis terris &c, cum lie 
wrak et wair de lie Houp ejusdem ; Tenend. de dicto monast. ; — de 
data apud Hammiltoun, 26 Dec. 1601: — Insuper, — pro bono ser- 
vitio dictorum Wil. et Jacobi, necnon pro compositione persoluta, — 
suprascripta dictis Jac. et Is. de novo in feudifirmam dimisit: — 
Tenend. dictis Jacobo et Issabelle in conjuncta infeodatione, et 
heredibus inter eos legitime procreatis, quibus def., heredibus et as- 
signatis dicti Jac. quibuscunque : — Reddend. 20 bollas frumenti, 26 
bol. farine avenatice, 26 bol. ordei (vel 6 sol. 8 den. pro qualibet 
bolla), 20 sol. antique et 6 sol. 8 den. nove augmentations ; et 3 
sectas ad 3 placita capitalia apud Carnconan vel alibi; et 10 lib. in 
introitu heredum sive assignatorum ; ac perimplendo cetera contenta 
in antiquis infeofamentis et rentalibus, si que essent : — Test, ut in 
aliis cartis &c. ( XLIIL, 271.)" 



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19 Nov., 1581, James Ouchterloney, as heir apparent of Seatoun, 
was witness to a document signed by Nicolas Wardlaw and his wife, 
Patricia Wood. 

13 July, 1599, James Ochterloney of Wester Seyton was witness to 
"Gulielmo Raitt de Hailgrene, in vitali redditu et Roberto Raitt ejus 
filio secundogenito," for the lands of Conansythe in the barony of 
Inverkeillour. The parish of Inverkeilor is about five miles northeast 
of Arbroath on the coast. 

In 1598 were sold the lands of Burnesyde in barony of Inverkeil- 
lour, to Joanni Auchterloney of Balmurmure ( East Balmirmer farm 
held by John Hulme, West Balmirmer by David Ogilvie in Arbirlot). 
The King confirmed a charter of this last, 28 May, 1599, of which 
lames Ochterloney of Wester Seyton was a witness. ( Register of Great 
Seal, XLL, 538.) 



Commissariat 

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Vol. 33. 



Quotta Compo- 
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"The testame't datiue and inue'tar of the guidis geir sowmes of moe'y 
and dettis ptein'g to vmq le barbara Rait relict of vmq le W ra - Auchter- 
loney of West' Seytoun within the prochin of St. Vigien and frefdome 
of Forfar the tyme of hir deceas quha decessit in the moneth of October 
the yeir of God Jajv c lxxxxvii yeirs fath lie maid & gevin vp be gil- 
bert Auchterloney hir lau 1 soune exe datiue decnit to his said vmq le 
moder be decreit of the comiss r of Edg r as the samy' decreit of the dait 
at Edg r the six' day of Mche the yeir of God Jajv c lxxxxviii yeirs at 
len' Sportis & c & c . 

In the first the said vmq le barbara rait relict of vmq le W m - Auchter- 
loney of West' Setoun had the guidis geir sowmes of mo e » and dettis 
of the awaill & pees eft' following pteni'g to hir as hir awin sper guidis 
& geir the tyme of hir deceis foirsaid viz: — Item in utenceillis & 
domicilis w' the abuilzeme'tis & orname'ts of hir bodie estimat to ii c u 
mo'?. 

Su'a of the Inue'tar ii c u . Follows the dettis awin to the deid. 

Item ther wes awin to the said vmq le barbara rait relict of vmqle W m - 
Auchterloney of West' Seytoun be W m - Auchterloney of Kellie resten 
of ane yeiris a'nuelrent the sowme of xl 1 '. Ite' be W m - Rait of Hal- 
grene If me to his obliga'un ii c lxvi 11 xiii s iiii d . Item be Alex r Naiff in 
fofartie now in Methie lxxx u . 

Su'a of the dettis awin to the deid iii c lxxxvi 11 xiii s iiii d . 

Su'a of the Inue'tar w' the dettis v c lxxxvi 1 xiii s iiii d . 

Na diuisioun. 

Irof the quot is componit for 



We Mris Jo n Prestoun & c we decnit th intill as o 1 decreit gevin th r 
vpon beiris conf'me to the qlk & c . Irvpoun M r . Johne Rait sruito r to 
my lord of Edzall is becu' cau un." 



Barbara Rait was of the ancient family of Rait of Halgreen, Kin- 
cardine, which derived its name from the lands of Rate in Perthshire. 
In the reign of Robert III. (1390-1406) Rate of that ilk married the 
heiress of Halgrene of the surname of Durend ; and in the reign of 
James III. (1460-1488) there is a charter from that monarch of the 



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lands of Halgreen and Drumanager to David Rait of Halgreen, an- 
cestor of the subsequent lairds thereof. 

22 Oct., 1631, William Ochterloney of Wester Seatoun was served 
heir of his father, James of Wester Seatoun, of the lands of Seatoun. 
Catherine Ramsay was wife of William Ochterloney of Seaton in lf> 20. 

5 March, 1639, John Ochterloney was served heir of his father, 
William Ochterloney of Wester Seatoun, of the lands of Seatoun. 
( Inq. Ret, XIV., 280. ) 

From the foregoing account of the family it is seen that for the 
early history of a Scotch family we are dependent for genealogical 
information on charters, grants, confirmations and inquisitions of 
lands held by the family, and that the heir apparent was served as 
heir to his father, while also a testament dative served to bequeath 
things that could be given away to younger children and others. 

A century ago Sir Isaac Heard interested himself in acquiring in- 
formation regarding his wife's family connections, which included the 
Ochterloney family of the Wester Seaton branch. To his labors we 
are therefore indebted for vital records not now obtainable, as the 
parish registers of Brechin, Arbroath, etc., are incomplete and too 
late to furnish the dates he obtained from family records. 

From the family papers of the Wester Seaton branch, we are in- 
formed that the wife of John Ochterloney was Margaret Pearson, and 
their son, James Ochterloney, married 1 Feb., 1671, Elizabeth, daughter 
and heir of James Gairden, Esq., of Midstrath in the parish of Birs. 
The mains of Midstrath held in 1893 by Alexander Harper, farmer. 

James Ochterloney had a grant, 3 Aug., 1698, of Wester Seaton, and, 
on the same day, of Tillifroskie in the parish of Birs. 

Wester Seaton, which had then been in the family for over a century, 
is in the parish of St. Vigeans in Arbroath, and it is still identified in a 
farm held by the Francis family. The present house is a modern one, 
but the site of the old mansion of the Ochterloney family can be 
identified. 

James Ochterloney died before 21 Feb., 1727, and is buried at the 
church of Birs. By his wife Elizabeth he had : 

i. Alexander, b. 14 Feb., 1673 ; died young. 

ii. John, b. 8 April, 1674. 

iii. Jane, b. 4 July, 1679 ; m. James Irvine and had one son, James. 

iv. Helen, b. 1680. 

v. James, b. 15 Sept., 1681. 

vi. Peter, b. 22 Nov., 1683. 

vii. Margaret, b. 1684 ; m. 1715, J. Melville; buried at Birse. 

viii. Matty, b. 1685. 

ix. Isabel, b. 1687. 

x. David, b. 22 Jan., 1690; d. Feb., 1739. 

xi. Elizabeth, b. 1692. 

xii. Anna, b. 1693. 

xiii. Alexander, b. 16 Sept., 1695 ; of whom later. 

"Birse," formerly called "Press," a word of Gaelic origin signify- 
ing a wood or thicket, has reference to the Forest of Birse. The 



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parish, about ten miles square, of upward of forty thousand acres, of 
which about four thousand are wood and plantation, is situated south 
of the Deeside railway from Aberdeen to Ballater, two and one half 
miles from Aboyne station. It is noted for its wild scenery, and also 
the picturesque views on the Dee and Feugh waters. 

Tillyfroskie, one of the " Six Towns " of the Forest of Birse, belongs 
to the Laird of Finzean ( Robert Farquarson, Esq., M. P., J. P., 1893), 
whose mansion, an ancient structure in the vale of the Feugh, is built 
in the form of three sides of a square. 

The farm of Tillyfroskie is occupied by John Harper, farmer. 

David Ochterloney of Tillifroskie, born 21 Jan., 1690, died 1739, 
and is buried at Birs. He married Mary, daughter of Peter P'orbes of 
Balfour in the parish of Fettercairn, and she died in Feb., 1739, and 
was carried to the grave with her husband. 

The eight children of David and Mary (Forbes) Ochterloney were : 

i. Peter, who m. Margaret, dau. of Thomas Buchan, Laird of 
Auchmacoy, and had five children. On 14 Jan., 1744, Peter 
Ochterloney of Tillifroskie was served as heir general to his 
father, David Ochterloney of Tillifroskie. 26 Sept., 1755, he 
was served as heir special, in Tillifroskie, Boghead, Ramma- 
hagan in Birs, to his rather David, who died in 1739. 

ii. David, a captain in General Monkton's regiment of foot, who 
was unm., and d. of wounds received at the Siege of Quebec, 
Aug., 1754. 

iii. James, a twin of David, d. in Feb., 1739. 

iv. Alexander, a planter in the island of Dominica, where he d. 25 
May, 1779. He m. Mary Ann, dau. of John Gordon of Do- 
minica, and had two daughters. 

v. Elizabeth, who m. Francis Douglas of Aberdeen and Abbots 
Inch, son of Robert Douglas of Blackmiln, Logie Coldstone. 
He was an author, of whom a sketch is given in " Eminent 
Scotsmen," by Irvine. 

Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, the author of the earliest pub- 
lished Scotch Peerage and Baronage, and a kinsman and contemporary 
of Robert of Blackmiln, states the latter's descent from John, son of 
Sir Archibald Douglas of Glenbervie, a grandson of Archibald, fifth 
Earl of Angus, commonly known as "Bell the Cat." Of the loss 
of two sons of this Earl of Angus at the battle of Flodden, Hume, the 
historian of the house of Douglas, says: "There was also slain at 
this battle George, Master of Angus, and Sir William of Glenbervey, 
with some two hundred Gentlemen of the Name of Douglas." Francis 
and Elizabeth (Ochterloney) Douglas had one son, Robert, a merchant at 
St. Domingo, and five daughters, one of whom, Bethia, married Hugh, 
son of John Cochrane, Baillie of Paisley. Hugh and Bethia (Doug- 
las) Cochrane were the grandparents of the late Alexander Cochrane, 
formerly in business with the late Gov. Thomas Talbot, at Billerica, 
Mass., and founder, in 1859, of the Cochrane Chemical Works at 
South Maiden, now Everett, Mass. 



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vi. Mary, who m. Alexander Dyce of Aberdeen, and had five sons 

and three daughters, 
vii. Ann, who m. Andrew Tate, 
viii. Bethia, who m. Charles Tate, an advocate in Aberdeen. 

Alexander Ochterloney, born 16 Sept., 1695, son of James and 
Elizabeth (Gairden) Ochterloney, married 1 Nov., 1721, Elizabeth, 
daughter of Uavid Tyrie of Dunnydeer ; she died 23 July, 1749. He 
was laird of Pitforthy, Brechin, Forfarshire. In this parish are still to 
be found the farms of East Pitforthie and the Mains of Pitforthie. 
His five sons and two daughters were : 

i. Gilbert, of Newtown Mill and Pitforthy, who m. 25 Sept., 1745, 
Maria, dau. of William Smith, Professor of Philosophy at 
Aberdeen. He d. without issue, 6 Feb., 1786. 

ii. David, d. 30 Oct., 1765; of whom presently. 

iii. James, who d. on the Isle of Man, 8 March, 1760, leaving a 
daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Alexander Fairweather of Bre- 
chin, and afterwards of Philadelphia. 

iv. Alexander, Lieut, of the "Juno," killed by an accident at 
Quiberon Bay in 1760 ; unm. 

v. Charles, who d. in Bengal, in 1755. 

vi. Elizabeth, who d. unm., in 1782. 

vii. Jane, who m. 17 Sept., 1748, John Lyon, Esq., of Forgandenny. 
and Castle Lyon, North Britain. She d. in April, 1775, leav- 
ing issue. 

David, second son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Tyrie) Ochter- 
loney, was a captain in the merchant service, residing for a while at 
Montrose. Probably Boston was one of the many ports visited by 
him in his voyages. 

Five years after his first appearance in Boston, 4 June, 1757, his 
intention of marriage was published to Katherine, daughter of 
Andrew Tyler of Boston, by his wife Miriam, a sister of Sir William 
Pepperell. On 27 June, 1762, he purchased a brick house with about 
1,500 sq. feet of land on Back Street, which at that time was that part 
of Salem Street from Hanover Street to Prince Street. Meanwhile 
three sons and a daughter were born: David, Gilbert (d. 1780), 
Alexander (d. 1803), and Catherine (d. 1792). 

The eldest of these was David, born 12 Feb., 1758, who was to 
revive the glory of the name in a new locality. 

Burke's " Extinct Baronetcies " states that Gilbert Ochterloney, the 
second son, died in 1763. The following extract from the Gentle- 
man's Magazine tells a different story. Under Deaths, 16 Jan., 1780, 
"Gilbert Ochterling (Ochterloney), esq.; a very amiable youth, aged 
about 16. He died at the house of his father Isaac Heard, esq. in 
the college of arms. [The eighth line in our last, p. 51, col. 2, is a 
mistake.] " This last refers to a death item of the preceding month, 
"at the Heralds College, Isaac Heard, esq." 

Capt. David Ochterloney, the father, continued his career as a 
mariner, but a few years after locating permanently in Boston he died 



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in 1765, at St. Vincent. His will, made at the time of his marriage, 
was probated 7 March, 1766, and left everything to his wife " Ka- 
trin " ; but his debts made his estate insolvent, and it was not till 
1791 that a sum was realized to close up the estate, by a dividend of 
six and a half pence on the pound to his creditors. 

His widow went to England, where she married second, Sir Isaac 
Heard of London, Norroy and Garter King of Arms, and Gentleman 
of the Red Rod to the Order of the Bath. 

Sir Isaac Heard, born 10 Dec, 1740, at Ottery St. Mary, Devon- 
shire, did not die till 29 April, 1822. During his official career as 
Garter King of Arms he proclaimed the titles, etc., at the funerals of 
six generations of the House of Brunswick. He proclaimed George 
IV. as King, at Carlton House, 31 Jan., 1820. 

The son David, born 1758, was a scholar at the Latin School in 
Boston when his father died, in 1765. At the age of eighteen he 
went to India as a cadet, and in 1778 received an appointment as 
Ensign. In 1781 he was Quartermaster to the 71st Regiment of Foot. 
He attained the rank of Major in 1800, Lieutenant-Colonel in 1803, 
and Colonel in 1812. His commission as Major-General bears the 
date of 1 June, 1814. In 1817 he received the thanks of both Houses 
of Parliament, and after nearly fifty years of uninterrupted military 
duty, through impaired health he was forced to resign, with the in- 
tention of returning to England, but while at Meerut, for a change of 
air, died 15 July, 1825. He was Deputy-Adjutant-General at the 
Battle of Delhi, after which he was sent as Envoy to the Court of 
Shah Alum. For his conduct in the Nepaulese war he was created a 
Knight Commander of the Bath, and 7 March, 1816, was made a 
baronet. After his death there was erected in Calcutta a monument 
to him which is one of the notable sights of that city. These distinc- 
tions were the occasion of researches in the family history by Sir 
Isaac Heard, his stepfather, which resulted in an account of the 
family back to about the year 1650. This account was kindly placed 
at the disposal of the writer by the present baronet, and was confirmed 
and added to by his own researches. 

The arms granted were : Azure, a lion rampant argent, holding in 
his paws a trident erector, and charged on the shoulder with a key, 
the wards upward, of the field ; a chief embattled or, thereon two 
banners in saltire, the one of the Mahratta states vert, inscribed 
Delhi, the other of the states of Nepaul ; the staves broken and en- 
circled by a wreath of laurel proper. 

In the patent, granted 1816, the title did not descend, and was 
re-created 8 Dec, 1823, and the limitation was extended to Charles 
Metcalf Ochterloney of Delhi, son of Roderick Peregrine and Sarah 
(Nelley) Ochterloney. Sir Charles Metcalf Ochterloney, Bart., H. E., 
I. C. S., was served as heir of provision general, 21 Oct., 1839, to 
Maj.-Gen. Sir David Ochterloney, Bart. Sir Charles married, 31 Dec, 
1844, Sarah, daughter of William P. Tribe of Liverpool, and was suc- 
ceeded by his son, the present baronet, Sir David Ferguson Ochter- 
loney, to whom the writer is indebted for courtesies and hospitality 
on many occasions. 



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Roderick Peregrine Ochterloney married Sarah, daughter of Col. 
John Nelley of the Bengal Engineers, and had David William, b. 1809, 
d. young ; Charlotte Anne Montgomerie, d. 1834 ; and an only surviv- 
ing son, Sir Charles Metcalf Ochterloney, b. 21 Dec, 1817, d. 11 Aug., 
1891, who married, 31 Dec, 1844, Sarah, daughter of William P. Tribe, 
Esq., of Liverpool. She died 16 Nov., 1890. They had 

Charles Walcott Gordon, b. 1847 ; d. 30 April, 1855. 

David Ferguson, b. 27 Oct., 1848. 

Ross Wilkie, b. 10 June, 1853; d. 1900. 

A son and daughter (twins), b. and d. 1859. 

Gilbert Douglas, b. 20 May, 1867 ; d. 7 Dec, 1882. 

Sarah Helen, b. 29 Sept., 1845 ; m. 8 Dec, 1868, Sir James Liston 

Foulis. 
Charlotte Amy, b. 27 Dec, 1857. 

Annie Georgiana, b. 1 March, 1864 ; d. 9 April, 1883. 
Mary Hunter, b. 10 Sept., 1868; m. 25 Sept., 1889, Major John 

Grant. 

Sir David Ferguson Ochterloney, the present baronet, married, 1 
Sept., 1873, Somerville, b. 1848, daughter of Barron Grahame, Esq., of 
Morphie, Kincardine, descended from one of the oldest cadets of the 
now ducal house of Montrose, and had 

Mackenzie Walcott, b. 7 June, 1874 ; d. 12 March, 1875. 

Matthew Montgomerie, b. 28 Feb., 1880. 

David Mackenzie Cotman, b. , 1885 ; d. , 1893. 

Somerville Barclay, b. 

Sarah Ogilvie Graham, b. 

Rose Walcott, b. 

Mary Amelia, b. ; d. 1893. 

Charles Francis, b. , 1891. 

Margaret Jane Herdman. 

Sir David has a residence at Balerno, Midlothian, and a town house 
in Edinburgh. 

The arms of the Ochterloney family used in past centuries are 
those described in the account of John Ochterloney, circa 1682: — 
Azure, a lion rampant argent, within a border gules entoure of eight 
buckles or. Above the shield a helmet mantled gules and double 
argent, and on the torse for a crest an eagle displayed azure with an 
escallop in her beak argent. The motto " Deus mihi adjutor." These 
arms were registered by John Ochterloney of Guynd and two of his 
kinsfolk in 1672-1678. Then the Stewart quartering previously used, 
namely, or a fesse chequy argent and azure, was dropped. 

In 1779 there was certified to, in the College of Arms, London ; 
"Azure, a lion rampant argent charged on the side with a key in pale 
of the field and holding in the dexter paw a trident or. Crest, a 
swan rousant argent ducally crowned or, collared and chained of the 
last, charged on the breast with a rose gules." This was probably 
the work of Sir Isaac Heard. 



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The crest last given has been modified in recent years, inasmuch as 
the breast is charged with a buckle gules instead of a rose, and the 
wings and body debruised by a bendlet sinister wavy azure. The 
motto is " Spe labor levis." 

Other branches of the family have flourished in Scotland, but the 
limits of this sketch prevent a detailed account of them. 

Some of the family in clerical life should receive mention. 

George Ouchterloney, A. M., acquired his degree at St. Andrew's ; 
admitted to Carmyllie parish before 28 Dec, 1611, he continued till 
3 April, 1616, when he was accused of giving scandal by his marriage. 

John Ouchterloney, A. M., of St. Andrew's in 1643, was admitted to 
Aberlemno parish before 1655, and died in 1695, aged about seventy- 
two. He married Mary Lindsay, who died in Jan., 1678. 

His brother, Alexander Ouchterloney, A. M., graduated at Aberdeen 
in 1661 and was presented to Carmyllie parish in 1667, and died before 
2 May, 1683, aged about forty-two years, leaving two sons and a 
daughter, John, Robert and Jean. 

His son, John Ouchterloney, was served his heir 28 July, 1699, and 
of his brother and sister 16 May, 1693. {Ing. Ret., XLIII., 300.) 
He became the assistant of his uncle John at Aberlemno about 1690. 
He was owner of Flemington, where he had a church. He removed 
to Dundee in 1726, became bishop of the Non-jurant church at Edin- 
burgh, and had the district of Brechin assigned to him, and died at 
Dundee in May, 1742, aged seventy-five. His only son, Alexander, 
went to Philadelphia. 

Robert Ochterloney, born at Guynd, 27 Oct., 1662, was admitted 
20 May, 1685, to Garvock, deposed for intruding at Montrose during 
rebellion, 1715, lived retired and died at Montrose 9 Jan., 1750, in 
eighty-eighth year. 

David Ouchterloney, A. M., of St. Andrews 1643, first a school- 
master, ordained 8 Aug., 1650 ; in 1651 chaplain to Lord Carnegie's 
regiment; translated 23 Sept., 1658, from Finhaven to Fordoun, 
where he died in 1691, aged about sixty-eight years. His wife, Mar- 
garet Carnegie, died in Sept., 1647 ; and a daughter Agnes married 
James Farquharson of Tullochcoy. 

John Ouchterloney, A. M., formerly of Balmerino, was intruded to 
Fordoun prior to 16 April, 1701, and died between March, 1710, and 
29 Jan., 1712. 

Robert Ouchterloney, born at Guynd, 27 Oct., 1662. 




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